Clothes-pin.



A. C. McKlNNEY.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED MN. 22, 1916.

1,229,653. Patented June 12, 1917.

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ARTHUR C. MCKINNEY, OF KLONDIKE, TEXAS.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Application filed January 22, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LARTHUR QMcKINNnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Klondike, in the county of Delta and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Pin, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes pins, one of its objects being to provide a one piece metallic pin which is constantly connected to the clothes line but can be readily shifted to any desired position thereon, the said clothes pin having clips of novel form for engaging the fabrics so as to hold them securely to the line.

A further object is to provide a clothes pin which will not pinch the clothing to an undesirable extent although holding it securely to the line.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawingz- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the devlce.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation.

Referring to the drawing by characters of reference 1 designates an elongated loop formed by folding the middle portion of a single length of wire of which the clothes pin is formed. Where the opposed portions of the wire are twisted together to complete the loop, the said wire is extended in opposite directions to form arms 2 which are substantially in alinement. Each of these arms is bent into an eye 3 from which extends a depending loop 4 one side of the loop being extended through the eye 3 and merging into a coil 5. From this coil is extended a spring finger 6 which includes a stop coil 7 located close to the coil 5 and a terminal eye 8. The loop l constitutes one jaw of the clip portion of the pin and has Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1917.

Serial No. 73,754.

its sides bowed outwardly so that the terminal portion of the finger 6 will normally rest between these bowed sides.

The clothes line L is adapted to extend loosely through the loop 1 which is preferably equidistant from the two clips of the pin. Moreover, this loop 1 is disposed in a plane parallel with the planes of movement of the fingers 6 or, in other words, in a plane substantially at right angles to the line L. The line is extended between the loops 4L and the fingers 6 and when the clips are in engaging positions the stop coils 7 will rest upon the line as shown. The loop 1 is of sufficient length to permit either or both of the clips to be pressed out of engagement with the line, thus to allow a fabric to be placed on the line and under the clip so that when the clip is pressed onto the fabric it will bind it securely to the line, the fabric being gripped yieldingly against the line by the sides of the loop 4, by the finger 6 and by the coil 7. It will be noted that the ends of each clip will not come to gether under any circumstances. As the coils 7 rest on the line L, the line is kept out of contact with the coil 5 and, therefore, will not become pinched between the fingers 6 and the coil 5 when said fingers are pulled outwardly from and moved inwardly toward the loops 4. Likewise the fabrics engaged by the pin will thus be held out of contact with the coils 5 and will not become entangled therein.

What is claimed is A clothes pin formed of a single length of spring wire bent to form an elongated line receiving loop, an arm extending from the loop and merging into an eye, a loop integral with and depending from the eye, one side of the loop being extended through the eye and merging into a laterally extending spring coil, and a spring finger extending from the coil and formed of one end of the wire, said spring finger includinga stop coil adjacent the spring coil and extending toward the depending loop, and a terminal eye extending outwardly away from the depending loop, said fingcr being substantially Sshaped and the sides of the depending loop being bowed laterally toward the finger and having a finger receiving '2 v 1,229ges2 space therein, the stop coil on the finger In testimony that I claim the foregoing constituting means for engaging a gripped as my own, I have hereto a-fiixed my signaline to support the clothes pin anclholcl the ture in the presence of two Witnesses.

spring coilv away from the line and the ARTHUR-G. .MGKINNEY. fabrics thereon the terminal of the finger \Vitnesses:

and the bowed portions of the depending, V O. C. ORR,

loop constituting fabric engaging members. JAMEs PATTESON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

